This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 727450

The protection of drinking water quality requires joint actions by all users and managers of this resource: the industry in general, and in particular water, farmers and ranchers, public agencies and consumers. In this context, WaterProtect, a project that began in June 2017 and is funded by the Framework Program for Research and Innovation of the European Union Horizon 2020 (contract No. 727450), aims to develop new strategies and tools for better water governance in seven study areas (action labs) spread over a total of seven member states (Belgium, Romania, Poland, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain).

In the edition of January 17, 2018 (the night of Tuesday 16 to Wednesday 17) at 00: 30h through Canal24h will be issued the program entitled "50 years of scientific impulse", mentioning that the Center for Research and Development - Pascual Vila is a reference in biomedical, environmental and geoscience chemistry thanks to the institutes that comprise it: the Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies (IDAEA) and the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC).

The day October 28, 2017 was not a Saturday like another for the CID-CSIC and neither for the people who work in this center during the week. With 50 years of age, the buildings of the center should not spend another Saturday in solitude, so they had the honor of welcoming hundreds of workers who came with their families and friends for the Social-Scientific Party 2017.